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The owners of South Island Aggregates say the three-year fight over the dumping of contaminated soil at their Shawnigan site has been as frustrating for them as it has been upsetting for area residents.

A proposal to extend pay parking on downtown streets into the evenings is not a cash grab, city officials stressed Thursday. A city parking services review suggests charging $1 an hour for street parking between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.

New legislation will give B.C. police expanded powers to find missing people in cases where there is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

Premier Christy Clark broke her silence Thursday and fought back against NDP accusations that her government tried to provoke a full teachers strike two years ago.

The Victoria Humane Society wants to bring “a dynamic and fresh new approach to animal rescue in B.C.,” executive director Penny Stone said Thursday.

Six weeks after their introduction, Victoria council has backed off on its new fees for portable sidewalk signs.

Save-On-Foods is doubling its footprint on Vancouver Island with parent company Overwaitea Food Group buying seven Safeway locations and one Thrifty Foods store from Sobeys. Included in the two sales worth a combined $430 million, Stellarton, N.S.

The rainbow flag will fly over the B.C. legislature during the Sochi Olympics to protest anti-gay laws in Russia. The NDP’s Spencer Chandra Herbert requested the move after learning that B.C.

After a wicked windstorm overnight, thousands of B.C. Hydro customers were without power on Thursday morning. B.C.

Victoria police are looking for the man who pepper-sprayed a man and a woman during an argument outside Rock Bay Landing on Ellice Street. Police were called to the drop-in shelter Wednesday around 10:30 p.m.